Paul Eggert wrote:
If memory serves, we were going to add a configure-time flag
to change the program names from z* to gz*, which sounds
reasonable, when someone gets around to it.
Exactly.
Is that a change you could write? That would help move things along,
I expect.
I have already tried, but I don't know autoconf well enough, so I have
failed. Sorry.
I see in ChangeLog-2007 that gzip 1.2.4 used a seemingly simpler method,
but I am not sure it is a good idea:
"Allow installation of shell scripts with a g prefix: make G=g install"
BTW, I have written to Daniel Quinlan, the editor of the FHS, and am
waiting his response.
